Big John Steak & Onion

My god I’ve missed you Big John.
On our road trip from Detroit to the thumb, I saw the sign on the highway and with 3 lane shift we are here. I’d give it a step or two above fast food using Tubby’s and Subway as the bar.
We order a 16 inch original with mushroom to split and a few sodas for around 17 bucks. Not too bad.
This place is everything I remember as a youngster. Very very thin shaved Ribeye with a soft hoagie roll.
My date didn’t want to let on that she enjoyed it but she didn’t stop eating it. I think I need this to be on my list of yearly guilty pleasures. It’s not an amazing sandwich but it doesn’t need to be. It is however, very enjoyable.

Let’s not beat around the bush, Big John’s Steak and Onion is simply epic; it’s a Flint institution for a reason. Another reviewer here mentioned that Jersey Mike’s makes a better cheese steak. Again, let’s not beat around the bush– I’m a huge, huge fan of Jersey Mike’s, it is in my opinion one of the best fast casual chain sub shops around, but to suggest their cheesesteaks are better than Big John’s is simply laughable.
Now onto the other reviewers comment about the piercings and apparent disinterest of the girl working behind the counter showed. News Flash: this is the Flint area, where the weak are killed and eaten. It’s a rough town and people’s attitudes there often reflect that. It’s reality, embrace it.
In closing, Big John’s is the kind of place that survives on its own lore (for a reason) and people who’ve moved away from the Flint area still make the effort to return home for it (again, for a reason) and positive Unilocal reviews or not, it thrives– do yourself a favor and find out why!

I read the reviews about how awesome this place was and thought we would give it a try for lunch today. It was nothing special to be excited about. The woman with the tongue piercing helped us and she wasn’t that friendly at all. It seemed like we were bothering her by coming in to order food. My husband and I split a super steak, onion and mushroom sub and we both were surprised at how low quality it was. There are two places in Michigan that I can think of off of the top of my head that are way better than this place, Jersey Mikes in Waterford and Joey’s in Garden City/​Southgate. For the price we paid and the food we were served, it wasn’t worth it.